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Re:A Solution for Loneliness: Get out and volunteer, researc... by sametmax on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @02:29PM (#19973208)
Yes including toxic churches, soccer teams and anime forums. Humans being humans and all that.

Plenty of people prefer to be victims in group than alone though. We are weird creatures.

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Re:A Solution for Loneliness: Get out and volunteer, researc... by chii on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @08:36PM (#19976616)
What exactly is a toxic community? How does one identify that they are in one?
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Re:A Solution for Loneliness: Get out and volunteer, researc... by sametmax on Wednesday May 22, 2019 @01:11AM (#19977983)
Toxic is contextual to an individual. Some products don't affect all life forms the same way, or at the same dose. Same for communities: you know if you are in a toxic one if you can objectively observe it brings unacceptable suffering to you when you are in it.

It's not precise science, it's subjective, and sometimes hard to identify.

Same with abusing relationships.

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